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● The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an expansive trade pact being negotiated between countries in the Pacific Rim, including Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Eventually, every Pacific Rim nation may be included.

● Like other trade pacts, the Trans-Pacific Partnership includes provisions related to the environment, labor, agriculture, access to medicines and more.

If you're as upset as we are at the prospect of a massive natural gas power plant on UD campus in the heart of Delaware's 3rd largest City, join our campaign to fight back! It's time to remind Governor Markell, Alan Levin, Carol Houck, the University Delaware and the 8 employees at the West Chester start-up The Data Centers LLC that natural gas is not "renewable" or "clean" and it's time we get off of this dangerous fossil fuel, not build a huge power plant locking us in to more fracking, more water and air pollution and more climate chaos.

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Fracking for Natural Gas

The Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club is committed to protecting the environmental and public health values of the Delaware River and Basin from proposed hydrolic fracturing ("fracking") for natural gas. Our goals are to

Increase public awareness of fracking, its health and environmental impacts.

Prevent fracking fluids from being processed or disposed of in Delaware or in the Delaware Basin.

Support a moratorium on fracking in the Delaware Basin while the following scientific research proceeds to determine its safety in our Special Protection Waters: